Daily Inspiration Quote by Alex Morrison

A soldier’s candor peeks through the diplomatic gauze here: the real battlefield isn’t just in the Congo, it’s in the decision rooms of the governments being asked to send their people. Morrison’s first move is to tether Congo policy to Sierra Leone, implying that “what’s happening” there has become the cautionary tale - a live demonstration of how quickly an intervention can sprawl, sour, or expose unpreparedness. He’s not arguing abstractly about strategy; he’s warning that recent, visible instability will harden political reluctance. Governments don’t weigh troop requests in a vacuum. They weigh them against the last headline, the last embarrassment, the last body count.

The second sentence lands like an indictment dressed up as a procedural observation. “Of course” is doing heavy lifting: it signals that the absence of “professional military advice” at the Security Council isn’t surprising to insiders, but should be alarming to anyone who assumes global governance is matched by operational competence. Morrison is pointing to a structural mismatch - a council empowered to authorize force while lacking an integrated mechanism to assess feasibility, logistics, command realities, or exit conditions. It’s a critique of decision-making by committee without a staff that can say, plainly, what is possible.

The intent is practical, almost managerial: don’t ask nations to risk soldiers under a mandate shaped by political pressures and thin expertise. The subtext is sharper: legitimacy won’t compensate for improvisation, and the next intervention will be judged through the scars of the last one.